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I doubt my external is faster than an internal, but for me its more convenient to have the one external burner. My daughter had a netbook so it came in handy to make the recovery disks. I also do some fix it work on friends and family PC's. There is usually about a 50/50 chance the internal drive doesn't work. More so if they have small children. It's always nice to have options. It wasn't cheap when I bought it, but I don't regret buying it. :)

optical drive goneI went to control panel/backup and created a system image on my WD USB Passport portable drive. When it finished, I tried to create a system prepare disk I couldn't because my CD/DVD drive is no longer recognized. I went to my computer and my hard drive is shown but no optical drive is present...

Hardware & Devices

Optical drive clicks twice when starting video on hard drive-Almost new Inspiron 5720- Home Premium. i7 quad.
After installing three or four updates yesterday my laptop now clicks the optical drive a couple of times as I start any video or music file on the hard drive. Not a fatal flaw, but, very irritating just the same. Did a system restore to the...

Music, Pictures & Video

Optical Drive MIAI just turned my machine on and went to install a new program and nothing happened (auto-load didn't kick in). Checked my Windows Explorer and both of my DVD drives are not listed. So, I rebooted and still the same thing. I went into device manager and the Optical Drives are shown but with the...

Hardware & Devices

Install Wndows 7 without an optical drive on a brand new computer?Alright. I am somewhat a beginner to this. My mother wants to buy a small laptop (13.3'' toshiba t130D). When I went to the store to buy it, the salesman told me that I need to pay 85$ to get windows 7 installed on it since it has NO OPTICAL DRIVE. It seems like a rip-off... I was wondering......

Installation & Setup

Switching to a new computer, no optical driveHi, I would appreciate any suggestions on how best to do this. I purchased Windows 7 from the ultimatesteal.com and have it installed on my lenovo x60. I just bought an x200 which I want to migrate to. Will I be able to use my x60 if I've installed my Windows 7 on another computer? I would like...